A $1.8 billion pharmaceutical company with 10,000 employees in eight states asked Total Management Solutions (“TMS”) to implement a Supplemental Unemployment Benefit (“SUB-Pay”) plan for its planned staff reduction. The SUB-Pay Plan needed to be implemented within 30 days.

With over 25 years of experience implementing SUB-Pay Plans for Fortune 1000 companies, TMS was able to guide the company through the custom design and implementation of their plan within the required 30 days.

Introduced by the IRS in 1956, a SUB-Pay Plan is a unique type of severance plan designed to assist employees engaging in an involuntary termination due to a reduction in force, job elimination, reorganization, or similar circumstance. SUB-Pay Plans save payroll tax dollars and enable a company to utilize their paid-in asset of state unemployment taxes to supplement state unemployment insurance (“UI”) benefits with separation pay. When combined, these benefits can provide the laid-off worker with up to 100% of their pre-layoff wage.